I received a very genuine looking email today purporting to be from HM
Revenue and Customs saying that I had a Tax Refund. I was suspicious
when it asked for my creditcard details and phoned HMRC. They
confirmed that it was a Phishing attack and asked me to forward the
email to them.

g6zru wrote:
> I received a very genuine looking email today purporting to be from HM
> Revenue and Customs saying that I had a Tax Refund. I was suspicious
> when it asked for my creditcard details and phoned HMRC. They
> confirmed that it was a Phishing attack and asked me to forward the
> email to them.

And I had an appalling one today purporting to be from Abbey. It said that 
some one had deposited £4700 in my non existant account and asked me for my 
login details. It would have been more convincing if the site it took me to 
actually was something similar to www.abbey.co.uk instead of something like 
www.eudora.cn. It also took my totally false credit card details as a login 
which unless I'm very good at guessing credit card details was a bit slack.
-- 
Malc
I said "Oh pretty maid I think you done me wrong"
I said "Oh pretty maid I think you done me wrong"
"You just wait there boy, I'll do you right after evensong"
Sid Kipper